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Any secrets in your family tree, skeletons in your closet? Were your ancestors sinners or saints, royals or rogues? Season 4 of Ancestors in the Attic continues to travel the world solving mysteries, finding families and revealing key moments in Canadian history from a dramatic, personal perspective.

Hosted by Jeff Douglas, Ancestors in the Attic is a Gemini-nominated documentary series about ordinary people and their extraordinary stories. Produced by Toronto-based Primitive Entertainment for History Television it takes Canadians on a road trip across Canada and on a worldwide search for their ancestors. The series uncovers the personal dramas that lay in everyone's family tree, from a woman's search for her birth parents in Switzerland, to the discovery of long-lost family in Belarus, to a journey through the battlefields of Italy. Ancestors in the Attic provides unexpected, emotional and often life-changing answers to the genealogical questions that haunt many Canadians.